Stage Name

Birth Name

"Rochester"

Eddie Anderson

African American actor who is mainly remembered
for his Pullman Porter roles as "Rochester" with Jack
Benny in Radio and Films. His course signature voice can be heard
in many Flintstone's TV series.

His formal show business career began in 1919
when he appeared in a Negro revue, and continued when he and his
older brother, Cornelius, toured as a two man music and dance
team. Anderson did dance in some of his shows, and was very good
at it, however the dancing was atypical Jim Crow type of Negro
stereotyping roles that African-Americans could partake in those
racially segregated times.